Established in September 2012, the Education Foundation of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China is a private fundraising foundation approved by the Zhejiang Education Bureau and the Zhejiang Civil Affairs Bureau. In December 2019, the Foundation was awarded "5A Social Organization" by the government, the highest level of its kind.
The mission of the Foundation is to gain widespread support from society to promote educational development and public welfare, to promote the long-term development of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China and to accelerate the process of building the University into a high-level Sino-foreign university with distinctive international characteristics.